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Tag Archives: welfare reform
Single parents in benefits storm – Gingerbread’s data
With rising prices on one side and falling benefits on the other, have single parents been disproportionately hit by welfare reforms? Gingerbread, the charity supporting lone parents, believes so.
Their online survey ‘Paying the price:single parents in the age of austerity (pdf)’ asked a number of questions about meeting rising living costs, with 591 single parents replying between July and September 2013.
HMI Welfare have obtained the online survey data results here Continue reading Single parents in benefits storm – Gingerbread’s data
Welfare reform and data: telling London’s benefit cap stories
#WelfareReform child poverty mapped - but 'doesn't show the variation at ward level' - Ade, @1in10 pic.twitter.com/uyVo4ja6cG
— HMI Welfare (@HMIWelfare) December 9, 2013Representatives of the voluntary sector gathered on Monday for an event to share good practice on using data on the impact of welfare reform – and Help Me Investigate was there to cover it.
The Welfare Reform and Data seminar, organised by Ade Sofola of Save the Children‘s 4in10 campaign, hosted speakers from the New Policy Institute (npi), and Help Me Investigate’s own Paul Bradshaw who live-tweeted from the event on the @HMIwelfare Twitter account.
Hannah Aldridge from the New Policy Institute presented information and data about child poverty in London while Bradshaw spoke about the stories that can be told with data, how collaborative investigations work, and ways of increasing engagement with ongoing stories. Continue reading Welfare reform and data: telling London’s benefit cap stories